Sex worker promo vids: Are they art? Porn? Or something else entirely?

Workshops, English

By: Panna

ENGLISH

Location: Altes Finanzamt

Maximum number of participants: 25
Workshop fee: 10 – 15 € sliding scale
Registration: pannabpff@gmail.com

Sex workers are extremely multi-faceted individuals and the sex industry continues to push boundaries in technology despite the constant attempts to censor it by a variety of antis. Recently, many escorts and kink professionals have started using video to catch the attention of clients. But are these videos art, porn or advertising? What challenges face sex workers making promo videos? How can porn people support our sex industry siblings? What about crossover artists (those who are porn performers and also escorts)? What are the messages these videos must communicate to clients and what gets lost in translation?

This new genre of media is increasingly important within these industries and so far has garnered no academic or artistic criticism or discussion, despite many of these videos being both beautiful and highly interesting from a technical and cinematic point of view. This workshop will not include discussion of morality of the sex industry and global decriminalization of the entire industry as essential to our safety is a given.